Tag: Family

ABUSE & VIOLENCE IN THE CHURCH

Creating Safe Spaces: Ryan Stollar’s Legacy

Julie Anne

I’m not sure how I first met Ryan Stollar through social media initially. He was a young adult who had been homeschooled. I was a homeschool mom of 7. He was a couple of years older than my eldest. In late 2012, I read a blog post of his and was touched at how transparent… Continue reading Creating Safe Spaces: Ryan Stollar’s Legacy

Christian Marriage, Complementarianism, Divorce, Egalitarianism, emotional abuse, Focus on the Family, Gender Roles, Julie Anne's Personal Stories, Leaving the Church, Marriage, Patriarchal-Complementarian Movement, Religious Power and Control, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritual Authority, Spiritual Bullies

Spiritual Headship was Spiritual Abuse in My Family

Julie Anne

But towards the end of our marriage, something else changed. For the first time ever, if I questioned or challenged him about a doctrinal belief that had changed, he started to pull rank saying he was the spiritual head of the home. That had never occurred before.

Doug Phillips & Vision Forum, Full-Quiver, Homeschool Movement, Patriarchal-Complementarian Movement, Personal Stories, Reconstructionist-Dominion Movement, Recovery Process, Vision Forum

In the Wake of the Doug Phillips Affair, a Mother Grieves and Seeks Our Prayers

Julie Anne

*     *     * The Doug Phillips affair has touched many lives.  Read as a mother cries out for prayer as she "fostered some pretty difficult beliefs" on her children by adhering to teachings in the Homeschool Movement and Doug Phillips and Vision Forum. *     *     *  Hear… Continue reading In the Wake of the Doug Phillips Affair, a Mother Grieves and Seeks Our Prayers